[mythtv-users] I bought a pcHDTV 5500, now what?

[Derek Tattersall]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:07:31PM -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 11/22/06, Derek Tattersall <tatters at newsguy.com> wrote:
> > I just installed a pcHDTV 5500 in my pc, and it seems to be sort of
> > working. I am running a 2.6.18 kernel on a fedora fc5 box, and the
> > drivers identified the card and loaded properly, I think. I went and got
> > the latest version of dvb-apps and ran the dvbscan utility with the
> > us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 channel file.
> >
> > However, when I run the dvbscan utility, it doesn't give me any channel
> > identifiers. The channels.conf file that I generated has a couple
> > hundred lines like this, without any channel ids:
> >
> > [000-000b]:561000000:QAM_256:0:94:11
> > [001-000c]:561000000:QAM_256:0:97:12
> > [002-0012]:561000000:QAM_256:0:92:18
> > [003-0015]:561000000:QAM_256:68:69:21
> >
> > I tried a few of these entries using the azap utility and mplayer, and
> > was able to get a signal on a couple of them, and there was no decodable
> > output on some others.
> >
> > How do I figure out what cable channels go with which entries in the
> > channels.conf file?
> >
> > I have Time Warner cable in the Greensboro NC region.
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Derek Tattersall
> > lizzard at newsguy.com
> 
> uhm. watch them?
> then add them to
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Working_QAM_cable_layout
> 

That is certainly one option. The problem is that there are about
200 lines in the conf file that dvbscan created. I was wondering if
perhaps something is wrong with my set-up, since none of the channel
ids made it into the file. Isn't the dvbscan utility supposed to
pick those up? Or is this another case of Time Warner doing something
non-standard?


-- 
Derek Tattersall